The Colombian Government has authorized nearly 500 tons of sharks to be harvested in 2020. This will legalize the harvest of fins from multiple species, including ones listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN, like silky sharks. Please TAKE ACTION and ask that this authorization be withdrawn.

The petition is in Spanish but can easily be translated via Google Translate if desired.

Here are some of our favorite posts so far from our friends and partners! Feel free to share the image and copy/paste the caption to your social media accounts to encourage your friends, family, and followers to CALL Governor Jay Inslee and ask that the lower four snake river dams are breached in 2018!

At the bottom of this page there are also translations for our main caption!

TODAY IS THE DAY!
This is Slick a southern resident killer whale and mother orca who just recently lost her little one, Scarlet, who starved to death due to a lack of Salmon in the Salish Sea. This was shortly after we all witnessed the tragedy of Talehquah, another mother, carrying her dead calf for 2 weeks in mourning throughout the salish. The Southern resident orcas are dropping before our eyes one by one because there is not enough food for them to eat. This is 100% OUR fault and they NEED us to make this right. Aside from overfishing ( PLEASE take a break from salmon) the biggest issue is the Obsolete 4 lower snake river dams that are preventing keystone species Chinook salmon (the fish that makes up over 80% of SRKW diet) from spawning. Not only killing the residents but if the dams are not breached this will jeopardize the entire PNW ecosystem.
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Please join us for an international protest and final push to get these dams breached and protect the remaining population from starving to death before our eyes. Follow @pnwprotectors@damsense@keiko_conservation to stay informed. Sign the petitions on PNW Protectors website and FLOOD WA governor Jay Inslee with calls and faxes on the 1st. He actually DOES have the power to breach regardless of what his secretary tells you. Stay firm. Lets get this done. And PLEASE share and spread the word!
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GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE
Phone | 360 902 4111

8 steps to save our Southern Resident Orcas.
Let’s all make the calls, write the letters, stop eating Chinook salmon and share this with everyone you know!
You Make A Difference!
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1. Call and write to Governor Jay Inslee & ask him to breach the lower four snake river dams in 2018 because our southern resident orcas are starving to death. These orcas need salmon now!
Extinction is Forever.

2. Call the US Army Corps of Engineers and ask them to please supplement the 2002 Environmental Impact Statement immediately using Alternative #4 and breach the lower four snake river dams immediately in 2018!

HELP SAVE THE ORCA!!! Join the fight today in a worldwide protest & call to action to help save the SOUTHERN RESIDENT KILLER WHALES!!! .
HERE'S WHAT WE ALL NEED TO DO
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Call Governor Jay Inslee's office @GovInslee asking to breach the 4 Lower Snake River Dams in 2018! If you can't call, write a letter! Or even better, do both!.
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Governor Jay Inslee
416 14th Avenue SW
Olympia, WA 98504
Tel = +1-360-902-4111
USA
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Post an image on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or a video or photo of you calling & tag @GovInslee, use the hashtag #NowOrNever, and tag friends to encourage your friends to call, write and share!
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DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY WHEN YOU CALL? Here are a couple suggestions:
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➡️ "I'm calling in regards to the Southern Resident Killer Whales and the 4 Lower Snake River Dams that's driving them to extinction."
➡️ If they say "This is a federal issue. This isn't Jay Inslee's jurisdiction." You can answer "Jay Inslee has the authority and power to make this a federal issue and we need him to ask for those dams to be breached in 2018."
➡️ Why is it so important this starts in 2018? "If we start breaching the dams in 2018, by 2020 the process will be done and an estimate of 2 million smolts per dam will return."
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Let's do this @pnwprotectors@keikoconservation@searchingforchinook@oceanicpreservationsociety@littlegypsyblog and everyone else who is joining us!

We've created the following tweets for you below to easily share by just clicking the image you want to share! Thank you to Sara Shimazu, PNW Protectors/Swimming In Moonlight, and Sirens and Moonlight for the imagery!